Carly Fiorina has loaned her Senate campaign an additional $1.1 million, her campaign said Friday, bringing the former Hewlett-Packard CEO’s total personal investment in the race to $3.6 million.

The extra cash will allow Fiorina to pay for TV ads in the final weeks of the election as she seeks to overtake front-runner Tom Campbell, the former congressman and professor, in the polls. Fiorina so far has been unable to erode Campbell’s steady lead — ranging from the mid-single digits to low-double digits in most surveys — since he entered the race in January.

Fiorina ended the first quarter of this year with $2.8 million in cash on hand, Campbell with $1.1 million, and state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore with $412,000.

Although Fiorina’s loan gives her an advantage over her opponents in the final weeks of the race — Campbell and DeVore are not self-funding their campaigns — $1.1 million is not a huge sum in a state as expensive to advertise in as California. And Fiorina’s investment is a mere fraction of the vast sums Republicans Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner have spent in the governor’s race — about $86 million between the two, including $7.5 million this week, according to campaign sources.

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